Daniel Murray Monologue from The Drone A Play in Three Acts

From The Drone A Play in Three Acts by Rutherford Mayne

male · melancholic · 1:31 min

You will, John, you will. But don't cast up things like that about the time I've been. It hurts me. A thing like this takes time to mature, you know, John. The great and chief thing for an inventor is time. Look at Palissy, the great French potter, who found out how to make porcelain glaze. Why he worked for years and years at his invention. And there was the man who found out how to make steam drive engines. Look at the years those men spent--and no one begrudged them. (JOHN: I suppose that now.) Certainly, John, nothing surer. And look at the fortunes those men made. But the great difficulty is trying to get someone to take up your patent. You see these men had the eyes of the world fixed on them. People knew all about them, and had their hands stretched out ready to grab what they invented. (Pathetically). I----I'm just a poor unknown man struggling in a wee dark corner. JOHN (touched). Never mind, Danny. You'll make the name of the Murray's known yet, maybe.

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